Nobel Peace Prize

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New York, October 7, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is delighted that
the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to renowned Yemeni press freedom
activist Tawakul
Karman, Chairwoman of Women Journalists Without Chains, along with two
other female leaders.

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Although China
continues to censor
references to imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo's Nobel peace prize in the news and
online, some have been finding creative ways to express support for him. An
outspoken newspaper published a front-page picture featuring empty chairs on
Sunday, in what appears to be a covert reference to the seat left vacant for
Liu during Friday's ceremony in Oslo.

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It was more than Liu Xiaobo's chair that was empty at
Thursday's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. What was also on display to the world
was China's lack of a new approach to media that goes beyond its decades-old
approach of controlling through denial and suppression.

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Nart Villeneuve has published a detailed summary of recent malware attacks on media and human
rights groups who work on Chinese issues. He highlights a
disturbing new trend. On Wednesday, Amnesty Hong Kong's website was
repurposed by hackers to infect visitors with a wide variety of
nasty malware. The Nobel Prize's website was also
defaced earlier this month, for the same ends.

As with the
e-mailed Nobel invite malware CPJ described earlier this week,
these attacks target one vulnerable member of the dissident
community, then use that person's own communications to infect others.

If you're an organization whose audience in China is of interest
to the authorities, please take extra care with the security of
your website. As Villeneuve says, even if this spate of
attacks ebbs, attacking online news sites to spread targeted
spyware is a trend that is bound to continue.

November 12, 2010 1:37 PM ET

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This weekend, staff at CPJ received a personal invitation to attend the Oslo awards ceremony for Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. The invite, curiously, was in the form of an Adobe PDF document. We didn't accept. We didn't even open the e-mail. We did, however, begin analyzing the document to see was really inside that attachment, and what it was planning to do to our staff's computers.

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New York, October 8,
2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Chinese government
to end its pointless attempts to block the news by blacking out domestic and
foreign media coverage of the Norwegian Nobel
Committee's announcement awarding jailed human rights activist Liu Xiaobo
the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.